Improvement in combined horse-boot



J. FENTON. Combined Horse Boot and Weight.

No. 211,897. Patented Feb. 4,1879.

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m'rnn STATES PATENT FF JOHN H. FENTON, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED HORSE-BQOTFAND WEIGHT.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 211,897, dated February4, 1879; application filed I October 5, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN H. FENToN, of Indianapolis, in the county ofMarion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful AdjustableSide and Toe Weight for Boots used on Trotting-Horses, of which thefollowing is a description, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings.

The object of my invention is to provide an adjustable weight, and meansof fastening the same to a boot of a trotting-horse, so that whenattached to the side of the boot it will give the animal an open gait,and spread the hind feet and permit. them to pass the front feet withoutstriking, and when adjusted to the front of the boot and applied to thefront feet will act as a toe-weight.

Prior to my invention side weight boots have been made with the weightmade fast to the boot, or with pockets to receive the weight 5 but I amnot aware that weights have been made that could be attached to the sideor toe of a boot, or removed therefrom at will, prior to my invention. I7

My invention consists of the new construction and arrangement of theweight and screw, and in the new combination of parts with the boot, aswill be hereinafter fully set forth and described.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference in thedifferent figures indicate like parts, Figure 1 represents a perspectiveview of a horses foot, showing a pegging-boot, with my improvedadjustable detachable weight attached to the side. Fig.2

represent-s the same with the Weight attached to the toe; and Fig. 3represents the boot, with side weight attached, removed from the hoof.

A represents the boot, provided with a spur, E, incased in the casing D,the strap J, and buckle H, all of which are of the ordinary form exceptthe spur E, which, in this device, is

provided with a hole, 0 for the purpose of serted in the hole G from theinside of the.

boot at the side, or in the hole (I through the spur E at the front ofthe boot, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

The weight maybe of any desired size and shape, and when attached to theside of the boot, as in Figs. 1 and 3, 011 the hind feet, tends tospread the feet of a horse while trotting, so as to give him an opengait, and permit the hind feet to pass the front feet without striking;but when the weight is removed from the side of the boot and attached tothe front the boot may then be used on the front foot, when the weightacts as a toe-weight, and gives the horse a better knee action. Thus theboot may be used as a side-weight or a toe-weight boot, and by removingthe weight entirely may be used as a pegging-boot.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. Ahorse-boot provided with an interchangeable weight, adapted to besecured to the front or side of the boot by means of a screw or bolt,substantially as shown and described.

2. In combination with a horse-boot, A, the screw-threaded weight B andscrew 0, all substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN H. FENTON.

W'itnesses:

E. O. FRINK, D. F. SPEES.

